[gothic-l] Re: New to the list with questions

[Francisc Czobor]

You're right, Dirk. I just quoted from memory.
In fact, Jordanes wrote "And because of the great victory they had
won in this region, they thereafter called their leaders, by whose
good fortune they seemed to have conquered, not mere men, but
demigods, that is Ansis" (Getica XIII, 78, Charles C. Mierow's
translation; in the origina Latin text: "... magnaque potiti per loca
victoria iam proceres suos, quorum quasi fortuna vincebant, non puros
homines, sed semideos id est Ansis vocaverunt...").

Francisc

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "faltin2001" <dirk at s...> wrote:
> The Christian Goths called God also "Frauja", which
> > means "Lord". In pre-Christian times, the Goths worshipped also
> > some "demi-gods", called, according to Jordanes, "Asi" (the word
is
> > cognate with Old Norse As, Aesir, from a Proto-Germanic *ansu-).
> >
> > Francisc
>
>
>
> Hi Francisc,
>
> just to add, according to Jordanes/Cassiodorus the pre-Christian
> devine ancestors or demi-gods were called not 'Asi' but 'Ansi' by
the
> Goths, which is of course, as you say, cognate with Old Norse 'As'
> and Old High German 'Ans'.
>
> BTW, the corresponding term to Gothic 'Frauja', meaning Lord is
also
> still used in religious German words like 'Fron-leichnam', which
> means Corpus Christi.
>
> Cheers
> Dirk



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